Long Form Non-fiction

Please begin reading your long form non-fiction book. If you haven't handed in your journal for the two short fiction entries, then please do so ASAP.

Practice Analysis

             

While we read and journal about our short fiction texts, we will use part of our class time to read and analyze some very short stories. Try your best to apply some of the skills we practice to your analysis in the journal entries (or your rewrite of the method to meaning essay).

Stories we will read and analyze: 
"Continuity of Parks" by Julio Cortazar

"Nobody Listens When I Talk" by Annette Sanford

"The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"The Eclipse" by Augusto Monterroso

"Binocular Vision" by Edith Pearlman

Methods we will examine:

symbolism, point of view, narration, figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole), imagery, irony, defamiliarization, etc.

HW: Continue reading and journaling. I will collect your journals for Friday.

Next due date: Rewrite is due 12/20 (last day of school in this decade!)

Focused Correction Areas (FCAs):
Topic Sentences
Quotation Sandwiches
Condensing Quotations

Day 12 NE

Do Now: Please take out your synthesis packet. How close are you to drafting a synthesis statement?

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to gather evidence from both texts to support my synthesis statement.
I will be able to organize a synthesis paragraph. 
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can choose the best examples from No Exit and "Five Characters..." to support my argument.
-I can describe the most effective way to structure a synthesis paragraph.

Agenda: 

1. Beginning synthesis paragraph drafts
2. Supporting a synthesis argument (synthesis paragraph rubric)
3. Exit Ticket: What is clearer/more confusing about synthesis?

Small Daily Task: Keep working on those journal entries for short form fiction texts #2 and #3. By Monday, you should have completed entries for one of the texts and begun your work on the next one. 

Day 11 NE

Do Now: What questions or concerns do you have about synthesis? How could practicing this skill prove useful?

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to define synthesis and practice crafting synthesis assertion based on No Exit and "Five Characters in Search of an Exit."
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can list similarities and differences between the two texts.
-I can draw a conclusion based on these similarities and differences and express it in synthesis statement form.

Agenda: 

1. Synthesis work continued (Steps 3-4)
2. Sharing our synthesis drafts
3. Supporting a synthesis argument
4. Exit Ticket: What is clearer/more confusing about synthesis?

Small Daily Task: Continue journaling on short-fiction texts #2 and #3. 

Day 10 NE

Do Now: What is the most obvious similarity between the play and the television show? What is the most glaring difference?

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to define synthesis and practice crafting synthesis assertion based on No Exit and "Five Characters in Search of an Exit."
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can list similarities and differences between the two texts.
-I can draw a conclusion based on these similarities and differences and express it in the form of a synthesis statement.

Agenda: 

1. What is synthesis?
2. No Exit and "Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
3. Our Conclusions
4. No Exit Ticket: What is a question you have about synthesis?

Small Daily Task: Continue journaling on short-form fiction texts #2 and #3.

Day 9 NE

"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight zone!"

Do Now: If Sartre wrote No Exit to help audiences understand the risks of not living life according to existentialist principles (e.g., taking responsibility for your actions and bearing the idea that we're "condemned to be free"), then do you think he succeeded? Think of one reason why he did or did not.

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to compare and contrast No Exit with "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" and use the two texts to draw a conclusion about a big idea.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can list similarities and differences between the two texts.
-I can make an inference about what the two texts suggest about a big idea.

Agenda: 

1. "Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
2. Making Connections
3. No Exit Ticket: The two texts make me think about...

Small Daily Task: Short-form fiction #2 and #3 check. What will you use for these entries? Film, short fiction, poetry collections, plays, albums, etc. Let me know if you're having trouble finding sources!

Day 8 NE

A paper knife

Do Now: Of the three main characters in No Exit, who needs the most "help" to get out of hell? Explain why you've chosen this character and what sort of help he/she needs to improve.

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to explain how Sartre uses the symbols of the brass ornament, the paper-knife, and the lack of mirrors and constancy of lamplight to communicate existentialist principles.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can point to evidence in the play connects one of the symbols to an existentialist idea.
-I can make connections between the symbols and the characters.

Agenda: 

1. Post-reading group work continued
2. Symbolism in No Exit
3. No Exit ticket: What is an idea you will carry with you from No Exit?

Small Daily Task: Final draft of method to meaning essay due Monday. 

For the final draft due Monday, any student who earns a B+ or above will see the grade on the rubric; any student who earns under a B+ will receive the rubric but no grade because:

    -all students who receive below a B+ will need to do a rewrite      (the rewrite for students receiving a B+ and above is optional)
and
    -all students rewriting must write a revision paragraph to          identify what was changed (and why/how it's an improvement)